1971-72 South African cricket season
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This article is a review of the 1971-72 South African cricket season.
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[edit] Honours
- Currie Cup – Transvaal
- Gillette Cup – Eastern Province
[edit] Events
The 1971-72 South African cricket season was the first one where the isolation placed on South African cricket as a result of the apartheid policies practised by the South African Government fully bit the men's game. The planned England tour of South Africa in 1968-69 had been cancelled in the wake of the D'Oliveira affair, when prime minister Vorster refused to allow black cricketer Basil D'Oliveira into the country to play for England. Australia had toured at the beginning of 1970, but the proposed tour to England later that year was called off by the Marylebone Cricket Club after it had come under immense pressure from the Government and protesters. The proposed tour by England to South Africa this season was also called off, which led to the South African Cricket Association to decide on 23 January to extend the Currie Cup, which had nearly been completed, to a full round of home and away matches. The proposed tour of Australia late in 1971-72 was in doubt, and was later called off, and the prospects of future international cricket looked grim. In the event, the tour by the New Zealand women's cricket team in 1971-72 proved to by the last official international cricket South Africa would play until the apartheid laws were repealed.
| 1971-72 South African cricket season |
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Currie Cup Section A | Currie Cup Section B | Gillette Cup | Other first-class | New Zealand Women |
| 1971-72 South African cricket season |
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Border | Eastern Province | Griqualand West | Natal | Natal B | Northern Transvaal | |
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Orange Free State | Rhodesia | Transvaal | Transvaal B | Western Province | |
[edit] The beginning of isolation
[edit] New Zealand women tour
See also: New Zealand women in South Africa in 1971-72
[edit] Season details
See also: 1971-72 South African cricket season (chronological match reports)
[edit] Currie Cup
[edit] Section A
See also: Currie Cup Section A in 1971-72
[edit] Section B
See also: Currie Cup Section B in 1971-72
[edit] Gillette Cup
See also: Gillette Cup in 1971-72
[edit] Other first-class matches
See also: Non-Currie Cup first-class matches in South Africa in 1971-72
[edit] References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Hamlyn A-Z of Cricket Records by Peter Wynne-Thomas
- Playfair Cricket Annual
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack
- CricketArchive
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